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“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If tha...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 28:00
Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year.
We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...
- Added: Dec 25, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 22, 2022
- Length: 01:00:03
According to medical culture, a clinician should “fix” illness, not have one – especially not a mental illness. But in reality, mental illness is i...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 32:20
Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Dec 20, 2020
- Length: 58:46
- Purchases: 1
A documentary of the effects of being left both motherless and fatherless at an early age.
Bought by KUER, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KISU, KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 57:03
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Dec 20, 2019
- Length: 57:44
Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Just in time for the centennial of the end of World War One, a story of triumph and tragedy that spawned a national womens' movement and a historic...
- Added: Oct 23, 2018
- Length: 53:58
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
From: New Letters on the Air
Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A one-hour program focusing on the work of female jazz guitarist Emily Remler. Great for Women's History Month!
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 15
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:08:20
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...
Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 3
We remember a Past American Voice--Arkansas native and former Rhode Island Poet Laureate, C.D. Wright who died suddenly in early 2016. She authored...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham shares stories about some of his influences, including the late poets Richard Hugo, William Stafford and...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A sound-designed piece from a cat's perspective on her last adventure.
- Added: Dec 20, 2015
- Length: 07:32
IU performs Jean Anoilh adaption of Sophocles' Antigone
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 09:10
Barb's Story / The Fabulous 3 / Take Your Oxygen First / A Few Good Men
- Added: Nov 08, 2015
- Length: 54:00
Mel and Judy / Ellen Proxmire-Patricia Stewart / Chris and Stacy-Tom and Mary / Patti Hoffman-Dr Karlawish
- Added: Jun 28, 2015
- Length: 54:00
We pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, the former Virginia Poet Laureate (2008-10) who died December 4, 2014. Emerson deftly port...
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Northern High School sophomore Christina Dixon entered Erica Walker-Joynes' exceptional children's class last year because she was deemed to be at ...
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 04:00
Tom Townsley reads his poem, When I am Old and Sick - words, sounds and music.
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: :46
